It’s yet another bad day for the losing side. Verizon is now ending it’s DEI programs.
From Brendan Carr on X:
When he said “effective immediately”, he wasn’t kidding. Feast your eyes on the dessicated husk of their All of Us page:
I was gonna drink anyway, but now I can call it a celebration.
Human resources, training, everything down to hiring goals. It’s a complete gutting. And with no hesitation.
This is huge because Verizon is a major telecom company. People are more connected today than they’ve ever been, and smartphones are a major reason for this. Because Verizon is a major mobile service provider, they had a lot of potential to propagate the kind of woke ideology that’s permeated the West Coast, where much of the tech world is headquartered. Through the tech giants, much of Coastal Californian culture could be easily exported to the rest of the world, and it seemed to have even reached as far as to poison Europe’s political climate.
However, pushback has been increasing in recent years. And now, even tech giants such as Verizon are starting to see that something is wrong.
It’s obvious that Verizon has changed course due to the potential for pushback from the FCC. It’s a fact of life: people and corporations act based on incentive. It was venture capital and the perceived desires of investors, among other reasons, that motivated companies to embrace DEI, even though it’s not expedient to effectively running a company.
As apparent as it is now that DEI programs are toxic and discriminatory, remember that there are people out there who have incentivized it. And while it’s apparent that they’ve lost much of their ability to incentivize their bad ideas, diligence is needed to ensure that they don’t return to damage society again, especially considering how extensive the damage was that they had already done.
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